When Washington Was in Vogue - A Love Story

Nearly lost after its anonymous publication in 1926 and only recently rediscovered, When Washington Was in Vogue is an acclaimed love story written and set during the Harlem Renaissance. When bobbed-hair flappers were in vogue and Harlem was hopping, Washington, D.C., did its share of roaring, too. Davy Carr, a veteran of the Great War and a new arrival in the nation''s capital, is welcomed into the drawing rooms of the city''s Black elite. Through letters, Davy regales an old friend in Harlem with his impressions of race, politics, and the state of Black America as well as his own experiences as an old-fashioned bachelor adrift in a world of alluring modern women. With an introduction by Adam McKible and commentary by Emily Bernard, this novel, a timeless love story wonderfully enriched with the drama and style of one of the most hopeful moments in African American history, is as "delightful as it is significant" ( Essence ).

About the author

Edward Christopher Williams was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1871. He was schooled at Western Reserve University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian, and at the New York State Library School. Williams is documented as the first Black American to graduate from a library school. He was a notable scholar, a brilliant teacher, and a pivotal developer of education for librarians. He was married to Ethel Chesnutt, the daughter of Charles W. Chesnutt, author of the seminal novel The House Behind the Cedars. Williams died of a sudden illness in Washington, D.C., in 1929 at the age of fifty-eight.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Christopher Williams, Edward Christopher/ McKible Williams
• Publisher: Amistad
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2005
• EAN: 9780060555467
• ISBN: 978-0-06-055546-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: African American & Black / Women, POETRY: American / African American & Black, POETRY: Women Authors, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, FICTION: Romance / African American & Black, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Renaissance